Closing contact slide for a proposal from Ferncastle Accounting, a fictional firm
Thank you contact slide that ends a proposal
A thank you contact slide ends a presentation by thanking the audience and giving them the one person to contact and the ways to reach them, large enough to copy down. This one closes a proposal from Ferncastle Accounting, a fictional firm, with its director's name and role and three contact rows for email, phone and website.
What is on the slide
- Title and line
- Thank You. Priya Nandakumar, Director, Ferncastle Accounting. Questions about this proposal come straight to me.
- Contact rows
- Email: priya@ferncastle.example. Phone: (03) 5550 1842. Website: ferncastle.example.
When this is the right slide
Pick this slide to close a proposal or pitch when one named person owns the relationship and the audience needs email, phone and website large enough to copy down during questions.
What to swap it for
Closing: Contact Grid Four. Use the contact grid of four when the close needs four channels or four people, such as a team introduction with each lead's contact details.
What this slide shows
The title reads Thank You in a large serif face. Under it the line reads Priya Nandakumar, Director, Ferncastle Accounting. Questions about this proposal come straight to me. Three full width rows stack below in orange, teal and light orange. Each row has a white circle with an icon, a small label and the value in large serif type: a mail icon, Email, priya@ferncastle.example; a phone icon, Phone, (03) 5550 1842; a globe icon, Website, ferncastle.example. Ferncastle Accounting is a fictional firm, the email and website use the example domain set aside for samples, and the phone number sits in a range kept for fiction, so none of them reaches a real person. There is no image and no logo; the slide does one job, which is to tell the client who to call and how.
When this is the right slide
Use a thank you contact slide as the last slide of any presentation where the audience will need to reach you afterwards: a proposal, a sales pitch, a tender presentation, a credentials meeting, a training session for clients. It is the right close when one person owns the relationship and the contact details are the most useful thing to leave on screen. Three channels is enough for most business audiences. Email for the detail, phone for the quick question and a website for everything else. Naming the person changes the slide from a courtesy into a commitment, and the line about questions coming straight to the director tells a client their questions will not sit in a shared inbox. It is the wrong slide when the presentation needs a decision, such as an investor pitch with a deadline, where a call to action close does more. It is also wrong for a conference talk to strangers, where a thank you with the slides link and a session tag is more useful than a phone number.
How to adapt it
First, for a tender presentation, add the proposal reference number to the framing line, such as Questions about proposal FA 2027 14, so the evaluator can quote it in any correspondence. Second, for an international client, write the phone number with the country code and add the time zone in the label, such as Phone, Melbourne time. Third, when a proposal is shared by link rather than presented, keep the same slide but make sure the email and website are written in full so a reader can copy them from the shared view. Keep the three rows to channels the person actually answers; a phone number that goes to voicemail all week does more harm than leaving it off. If the firm's brand requires a logo, add it once in the corner rather than in a fourth row. After the meeting, send the same three details in the follow up email with the proposal attached, so the client has them in writing and never has to hunt for the last slide to find a phone number.
What makes this slide work
A named person, not an inbox
Priya Nandakumar, Director, Ferncastle Accounting, with the line Questions about this proposal come straight to me. The client knows exactly who answers and that she has the authority to change the proposal.
Three rows large enough to copy down
Email, phone and website each get a full width row with the value set in large serif type, priya@ferncastle.example, (03) 5550 1842 and ferncastle.example. They read from the back of a meeting room and on a small video tile.
Icons label the channel at a glance
A mail, phone and globe icon in white circles sit before each small label. Viewers find the row they need without reading the labels, which helps when the slide stays up through questions.
Questions people ask
What must a last slide carry when it is a contact slide?
A thank you or closing line, one named person, and the two or three ways the audience will actually use to reach them. For a proposal that is usually email, phone and website. A name matters more than a generic inbox, because buyers want to know who will answer and whether that person can make decisions about the work.
Should the contact slide list several people?
Usually one. Several names make the reader guess who to call. If a proposal has a technical lead and a commercial lead, name the person who owns the relationship on the slide and put the others in the proposal document. A four person contact grid suits team introductions better than a closing slide.
Should I include social media on a thank you contact slide?
Only if the audience will use it to contact you about this proposal. For an accounting firm's client proposal, email and phone are what matter; a social handle adds a row nobody uses. Conference talks are different, where a social handle is often the easiest way for strangers to follow up.
What phone number format should a contact slide use?
The format your audience dials, with spaces in the usual groups, such as (03) 5550 1842 for an Australian landline. For an international audience add the country code, +61 3 5550 1842. Example numbers in templates and samples should come from ranges set aside for fiction, so nobody rings a real person.
Should the contact slide stay on screen during questions?
Yes. Leave it up while you take questions so people can copy the details, and so the person who asks the last question still sees who to contact afterwards. Moving to a blank slide or back to the agenda during questions wastes the most watched minutes of the presentation.
Is a thank you slide necessary at the end of a presentation?
Not for its own sake. The thanks is a courtesy; the contact details are the work. A slide that says only Thank You leaves the audience with nothing to do next. Pair the thanks with a contact, a next step or a call to action, so the last thing on screen is useful.
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